I’ll try to clearly explain my problem. For simplicity I will reference a single mood which has a single element that it plays when started.
My mood has an element in it which contains a playlist of BGM. I have balanced the element playlist since some of the tracks had a greater volume level upon import.
With the play list nicely balanced, I have then balanced the element to sit well with other play list elements so there is no noticeable change in volume (except where intended). I have also balanced to ensure a good degree of resolution is passed onto the end user as I am using the Syrinscape online player to broadcast to my players. By that I mean that their sliders offer a good degree of meaningful change. To begin with the mix was too loud and they basically had to work with the first 20% of their slider.
With the element playing at the correct level, and whilst I have the correct mood selected, I link them together using the “save current state” button in the mood section of the property inspector.
In the mood_element section of the property inspector the correct element has “start with mood” checked and the correct “target volume” for that mood.
Now, in the element section of the property inspector, the initial volume is set to 100%. So I attempt to, while the volume of the element is correct, use the “Sync Initial Volume”, which it does. This setting, as I understand it, sets the initial volume of that element when the player is loaded.
So after loading the player I click the mood that is setup as explained above.
For some reason the initial volume of the element has reset to 100%. Since the target level for the mood is (lets say 50%), Syrinscape steps in and automatically fades this down to the correct volume, which is exactly what I would want and expect in many situations but the result here is a kind of weird and sudden change in volume whenever the mood is first played. Its almost like a doppler effect as a car moves past you, just without the frequency change, only volume. Each time its volume starts at 100% before being faded down to 50%.
I can live with it for now but would really like to fix it soon so that the volume of the element, when played as a part of a mood its linked to for the first time after opening the player, is exactly at the correct volume for that mood, rather than the element, which keeps resetting to 100%. After that, the expected behavior is that the volume would automatically fade between different levels when different moods are selected that share the same element.
Sorry if I over explained any of that, just wanted to be clear as a lot of the other posts I looked at first seemed to be people that were just starting out and hadn’t got used to “save current state” for a mood. Maybe I am doing something really dumb and obvious (fingers crossed for easy solution) but I have tried a bunch of things and can’t sort it out.
